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ERIC Number: ED637490
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2023
Pages: 84
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: 979-8-3799-5989-0
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An Educator's Guide to Implementing Employability Skills across the Curriculum
Jerry Jay Cloud
ProQuest LLC, Ed.D. Dissertation, Morehead State University
For many students, life after high school means jumping into the workforce. However, getting--and keeping--a job requires a specific set of skills, and most students enter the world of work with little understanding of what will be expected of them. Schools are ill-equipped to help them because employability skills are not part of the traditional curriculum. Instead, emphasis has been placed on transitioning students to post-secondary education, while very little has been done to help students transition to the workforce. Schools focus on teaching students hard skills, but, in general, they do not help students learn how to apply that knowledge after graduation. This capstone sought to address this gap by developing tools to help teachers integrate employability skills into their classroom content. An Educator's Guide to Implementing Employability Skills Across the Curriculum breaks down the process of integrating employability skills into four steps: identify, connect, develop, and evaluate. The Guide organizes over 40 different employability skills and categorizes them into six areas: critical thinking, communication, stewardship, technology, personal skills, and collaborator. Teachers can access the Guide on a website created as part of this capstone to help them work through the four steps of embedding employability skills into their curriculum. Corresponding worksheets were also created for this capstone that walks teachers through the process. The tools created as part of this capstone will help teachers focus on the skills students need to successfully transition from school to the real world of work. This is not a wholesale educational change, but it is something new for staff to factor in as they think about the way they deliver feedback to students. [The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Copies of dissertations may be obtained by Telephone (800) 1-800-521-0600. Web page: http://bibliotheek.ehb.be:2222/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml.]
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Publication Type: Dissertations/Theses - Doctoral Dissertations
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Language: English
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